Two crits today

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P/1/2/3/4 crit: 1hr. 311 watts ave. 314 normalized. 163lb. Teammate got off the front early on, waited till he was safe, then attacked several times until noone answered, and got off clean. 33 minutes solo off the front chasing the break of 4. Caught one of the dropped guys in the break, he couldn't hang on my wheel either. Never caught the rest of the break, but easily cruised to 4th 20-30 seconds ahead of the main field. Probably could've done 330 watts that race had I not tried to save anything for the next race.

3/4 crit: 1hr. 244 ave, 278 normalized. Sat in a lot, teammate that got away (and won) the previous race gave me a 1 lap leadout, sat up for the win 200m ahead of the bunch. Lap counter miscounted though and goes, oh wait, one more lap, keep going. I had nothing left, got caught, ended up 5th. Official came and apologized, but not much he could do.

ave power on the break was around 315. Basically 320 to 340 ave when I could pedal, then 0 when I took a couple of the sharp corners. Out of the saddle on two of the corners every lap to build back to cruise speed as soon as possible. Averaged around 25mph ish.